Guadagno then attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Hudson Community Enterprises building in Newark.

A swearing-in ceremony for new attorneys is held at the Trenton War Memorial. Speakers include Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, Associate Justice Virginia Long, New Jersey Bar Association president Susan Feeney and Legal Services of New Jersey president Melville D. Miller Jr.

Assm. Jason O’Donnell takes part in a rally being held at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg by American Federation of Teachers Local 2375, which represents the school’s faculty and is locked in contract talks.

A lunchtime rally is held in Washington Park in Newark. Speakers include Phyllis Salowe-Kaye of New Jersey Citizen Action, Lawrence Hamm of the People’s Organization for Progress and representatives of the CWA and IBEW. The focus is the lack of jobs in Newark, where organizers say unemployment is 15.5%, and criticism of Verizon for reducing jobs in the city.